24/02/2023
This should be recent in everyone’s minds: The April 2022 attack on the Manhattan bound N train.
If you witnessed an emergency happening right before your eyes, you would certainly take some sort of action to help the person in trouble, right?
If you look at the first photo, you will notice individuals not helping those that were injured. We refer to this as the Bystander Effect. The presence of other people creates a diffusion of responsibility. People often look to others in the group to determine what is appropriate. When they see that no one else is reacting, it sends a signal that perhaps no action is needed.
In the second photo, we see US Army Veteran Thomas Fischer applying a tourniquet to a victim using the skills he learned in the Army to save the man’s life.
Training you receive in the Army will serve you and others long after the military.
Fischer said he’s been asked by many others how he knew what to do and added his advice would be to always ask if help is needed before jumping into action.
“In situations like that, oftentimes there’s too many people around and nothing getting done,” he explained. “I wouldn’t have felt comfortable if I hadn’t been in the military as long as I was, because you’re dealing with people’s lives.”
Be a Fischer. Be a leader. Go Army
